The THAAD weapon system acquired a medium-range missile that was
launched from a C-17 aircraft during the 2012 test conducted by the
Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin, the THAAD prime contractor
and systems integrator. With this test, BAE Systems’ THAAD seeker has
now successfully engaged short- and medium-range ballistic missile
targets.

“The THAAD weapon system is proven and reliable,” said Barry Yeadon,
THAAD program manager for BAE Systems. “THAAD has a spotless flight test
record of 10-for-10 intercepts.”

THAAD is designed to defend U.S. and allied soldiers, military assets,
and metropolitan areas from ballistic missile attack threats. BAE
Systems’ seeker provides the infrared imagery from the targeted warhead
to the missile to guide the interceptor to its target, destroying enemy
warheads through direct “hit-to-kill” technology.

The Missile Defense Agency completed the ballistic missile defense
system flight test integrated-01 live-fire demonstration at the U.S.
Army's Kwajalein Atoll/Reagan test site in the Pacific Ocean.

BAE Systems’ THAAD seeker program is delivering seekers to the U.S.
government for the second production lot. BAE Systems manufactures the
THAAD seeker in its Nashua, New Hampshire factory. The company has
worked on missile defense seekers since the late 1970s and achieved the
first hit-to-kill intercept of a ballistic missile target in 1984.